30,000 people can access Ohio driver’s license database with no oversight

“Ohio allows thousands of police officers and court employees to access driver’s license images online without oversight, by far the nation’s most permissive system. A recent Cincinnati Enquirer/Gannett Ohio investigation formerly/http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130922/NEWS010801/309220022 found the state permits 30,000 law enforcement officers and others to search the image database, which Attorney General Mike DeWine admitted formerly/http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130825/NEWS010801/308250087/WATCHDOG-Ohioans-not-told-how-license-photos-used last month had been uploaded in June without telling the public or reviewing security protocols. The Republican attorney general said similar technology was used by law enforcement in more than half the U.S., but the Enquirer’s report showed the technology is far more limited elsewhere.”